Caresse crosby autobiography range
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The Cramoisy Queen: A Life of Caresse Crosby
Praise for The Cramoisy Queen: A Life of Caresse Crosby
Though she was the bearer of a number of names in her 77 years-Mary Phelps Jacob, "Polly" Peabody, Valerie Marno, "Bunny," the Cramoisy Queen (presumably to suggest the memory of the seventeenth-century French printer/bookseller), even once considering the "too bluestocking" Mary Crosby - it was as Caresse Crosby that this remarkably gifted but tormented woman is remembered. Crosby was the bearer of so many diverse talents that anyone of the following could have brought her various kinds of immortality: inventor (and patent-holder) of the brassiere, co-founder of a distinguished small publishing company that pioneered in producing the works of many of the twentieth century's major literary figures, longtime expatriate, patron of the arts, memoirist, and defiant nonconformist regarding conventional society's values. But although scholars have occasionally discussed Crosby's secure place in modern culture, there has been no full-length biography till now, which makes Linda Hamalian's fine volume unusually welcome. Professor of English at William Paterson University and author of an earlier biography of Kenneth Rexroth, Hamalian is admirably thorough and balanced in this defi
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Designed to fail? The Crosby Continental Editions
There were two English-language paperback series launched in Paris in 1932 as competitors to the long-established Tauchnitz Editions. One of them, Albatross Books, was enormously successful, effectively taking over Tauchnitz within two years and going on to publish around 450 books before the outbreak of war in 1939. The other, Crosby Continental Editions, was by almost any measure a failure, publishing just 10 books and not even outlasting the year.
But for some reason, it is the history of the unsuccessful company that seems to be more researched by historians, biographers and bibliographers, and the books of the unsuccessful company that are more highly prized these days, at least by booksellers. Christian Wegner and John Holroyd-Reece, the founders of Albatross Books have slid gently into obscurity, with neither meriting an entry in the English-language Wikipedia, although they do creep into the German version. Most of their books can still be bought for just a few Euros. In contrast Caresse Crosby’s life is pored over by historians and the books she published are highly prized and highly priced.
Caresse Crosby with her whippet, Clytoris
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